Techniques to Identify Themes

By G. Ryan. 2003

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Social Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Integrating rural development and biodiversity conservation in Central Romania (2013, background): “These topics were grouped into categories or ‘themes’ (Ryan & Bernard 2003).”
Qualitative data analysis for health services research: developing taxonomy, themes, and theory. (2007, background): “Themes are fundamental concepts (Ryan and Bernard 2003) that characterize specific experiences of individual participants by the more general insights that are apparent from the whole of the data.”
‘It’s more than care’: early childhood educators’ concepts of professionalism (2013, background): “Three primary researchers (one from each country) participated in establishing the overarching themes and subthemes using a winnowing process (Ryan and Bernard 2003 ).”
Teaching Entrepreneurship to University Students through Experiential Learning (2013, methodology): “These learning reflections were analysed using thematic analysis (Ryan and Bernard, 2003; Braun and Clarke, 2006), a technique for analysing and reporting patterns (themes) within data.”
Reliability in Coding Open-Ended Data: Lessons Learned from HIV Behavioral Research (2004, background): “Although researchers have proposed general guidelines for analysis of the large amounts of data gathered in such forms (Field and Morse 1985; Weber 1990; Gorden 1992; Denzin and Lincoln 1994; Miles and Huberman 1994; Carey, Morgan, and Oxtoby 1996; MacQueen, McLelland, and Milstein 1998; Ryan and B”
Directed Qualitative Content Analysis (DQlCA): A Tool for Conflict Analysis (2019, background): “These codes and subcodes and their corresponding definitions based on theory-based theme and subtheme, category and subcategory will later lead the researcher’s work in subsequent steps of the analysis (Elo & Kyngäs, 2008; Hsieh & Shannon, 2005; Mayring 2000; Ryan & Bernard, 2003).”
The Impact of Integrated Practices of Lean, Green, and Social Management Systems on Firm Sustainability Performance—Evidence from Chinese Fashion Auto-Parts Suppliers (2015, methodology): “We analyzed open questions data following Ryan and Bernard’s [62] technique.”
How Many Interviews Are Enough to Identify Metathemes in Multisited and Cross-cultural Research? Another Perspective on Guest, Bunce, and Johnson’s (2006) Landmark Study (2017, background): “Our study examines theme repetition, but silences and/or the absence of themes are also important in qualitative analysis (e.g., Ryan and Bernard 2003); our findings cannot speak to such analyses.”
Teaching during COVID-19: The Decisions Made in Teaching (2021, methodology): “The data analysis relied on the techniques of qualitative thematic analysis [45] and was supported by the web based interactive software package QCAmap (www.”
Teaching Soft Skills to Business Students (2016, methodology): “After coding the qualitative comments for dominant and reoccurring themes (Braun & Clarke, 2006; Ryan & Bernard, 2003), we uncovered several avenues for improvement.”
Achieving Rigor in Literature Reviews: Insights from Qualitative Data Analysis and Tool-Support (2015, background): “It also is one of the most mysterious” (Ryan & Bernard, 2003, p. 85).”